Federal government scientists predict Lake Superior is looking at its third straight year of low ice cover. It is projected to be 52 percent covered at its peak — about 10 percent below average.
Most ice forms in February. As of last week, the lake was 12 percent covered.
That’s actually double the amount of Lake Superior that was covered at this time last year. Data on how much of the Great Lakes are covered by ice has been collected since 1973.
The high mark was in 1979 when almost 95 percent of all of the Great Lakes were ice-covered.


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